Mark Twain Quotes, Couple Quotes, Whales Quotes

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

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It were not best that we should all think alike.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

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I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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